MH-088 Está Vivo - Carry You To My MouthCarry You To My Mouth is the Mush debut from Está Vivo. The four track ep spans styles ranging from inspired indie-rock to tropical-folk to beautifully restrained hazy acoustic ballads with elements that remind of The Magnetic Fields, Spiritualized, Love And Rockets, and The English Beat. Está Vivo's lyrics lend a sophistication to the bedroom-pop production and naturally delivered deep vocals. Whether writing about an infatuation with someone he sees on the street each day or slyly working "Friday I'm in Love" into a song about a girl he meets at a party because it is the first song that they dance to, the lyrics are equal parts charming, carefree, biting and subversive. With productions that range from elegant and sublime to dark and foreboding, Carry You To My Mouth is a genre collision of experimental and pop sensibility.

Tracklist

01. Sweet Tooth

02. Smile Back

03. My Thing

04. Green Thumb

Release Details

Release Date: 04/09/2013

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Reviews Summary

Está Vivo produces the type of playful, tropical folk that could serve as a soundtrack to a late night beach party - Chicagoist / Not only an exploration into summery, tropical sounds, but also into the intricacies of romance and love - Some Kind Of Awesome / Creating a life-affirming free-for-all wrapped in a lo-fi indie rock / indie folk package with electronic music influences - Spacelab TV

Está Vivo's "Sweet Tooth" had me hooked with its very relatable and poignant opening lines: "Your light life can be so unkind to all of us who have the heavy minds". After exploring more songs from Chicago's Está Vivo, it became clear that he is clever with the pen, but complements his fasicnating words with music that rotates from the sublime to the depths of darkness. It's in this that a folk sensibility takes on a genre crash of pop and experimental sensibilities. The result makes Está Vivo one of the more interesting songwriters I've stumbled across. His casual vocals hint at relaxation, but if you bury yourself in analyzing his lyrics, he's anything but carefree, tackling the most complex social problems and constructs of our generation. I'm excited to hear what Vivo has in store for us on his next full length LP - if he pushes these brilliant juxtapositions of theme and sound, we could be seeing the formation of a songwriter following in Stephin Merritt's very deep and hard to fill musical footprints. - We Listen For You